I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice

100 Words about Baseball

Why I Love Baseball

There is no clock
90 feet between bases is genius
There are secret signs
Hanging curveballs are sexy
Numbers are magic: 755, 56, 7, 61, 1.12
Tinker to Evers to Chance
Ivy at Wrigley
The Green Monster
The suicide squeeze
Cracker Jack
Walt Whitman liked it
Jackie Robinson and Pee-Wee Reese
It just feels American
The seventh-inning stretch
Superstition
Guys in tight pants
Bull Durham
Centerfield
There’s no crying in baseball
Cooperstown
A great play at the plate
Chatter
Pepper
High socks
Tradition
Spring training
Keeping score
The rubber game
The infield fly rule
162 chances

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Original thought and original sin both happened a long time ago to people you couldn't possibly have known.-Fran Leibowitz

Today, a large percentage of the blogging world chose to post missives that needle, lampoon, or otherwise work over James Frey's literary integrity by giving examples of how they will reshape their own history in order to sell a million books. (i.e., "That paper cut I got last week will become a stab wound incurred while I singlehandledly took on the entire population of the Crips.") Enough, already. Please go back to the Alito hearings or Lindsay Lohan or Pat Robertson, because this joke ran its course in about 45 minutes.